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Detecting Mozilla App Install Capabilities with JavaScript
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I’m riveting super excited about the forthcoming Firefox Marketplace. A marketplace where you can download desktop, tablet, and mobile phone applications based on...
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Firefox OS Simulator
If you haven’t heard yet, Mozilla is working on an awesome new phone OS called Firefox OS. From a developer’s perspective, highlights include: all apps are and will be created from CSS, JavaScript,...
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Vibration API
Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers...
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Install Firefox OS Apps on Any Domain
The app store models we’ve grown up with suck: you have to install apps from within those stores. With iOS you go to a site, they provide a link to install their app, and you get swapped from the...
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Firefox OS
Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason: Mozilla’s finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they’ve been creating them for years — with CSS,...
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Firefox OS Manifest .htaccess Handler
Want to know one of the secrets why Firefox OS is so incredibly awesome? If you’ve created your website correctly, i.e. using CSS media queries (responsive design) and JavaScript feature detection,...
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Install Chrome Store Web Apps with JavaScript
Being able to install Firefox OS web apps from any domain, not just the platform app store, is a giant step forward in mobile app marketing and freedom. Firefox OS allows installing apps from any or...
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Create a Brilliant Sprited, CSS-Powered Firefox Animation
Mozilla recently formally announced Firefox OS and its partners at Mobile World Congress and I couldn’t be more excited. Firefox OS is going to change the lives of people in developing countries,...
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What MWC Taught Us About Firefox OS
This week marked the beginning of Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This is a giant event in the mobile world and is the kickoff event for Firefox OS. Mozilla CEO Gary Covacs, joined by...
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Firefox OS User Agent
While we consider user agent sniffing a horrible practice on the client side, UA sniffing is done quite a bit on the server side to serve up the appropriate page version of a site, or redirect to, for...
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Firefox OS Source Leaked!!!
The complete, commented source code for Mozilla’s new Firefox OS effort has been leaked!! In what can only be a massive oversight on Mozilla’s part, the holy trinity of Firefox OS (codenamed...
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Turn Your Web Application into a Firefox OS App in 5 Minutes
One of the promises that comes with HTML5 mobile apps, especially those to be featured on Firefox OS, is that your existing web applications, if created properly (feature detection, responsive design,...
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Firefox OS Phone Unboxing
I may work at Mozilla but I was just as giddy as anyone to get my Firefox OS device. I was able get one of the first test driver phones last year but there’s something special about getting a finished...
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5 Awesome New Mozilla Technologies You’ve Never Heard Of
My trip to Mozilla Summit 2013 was incredible. I’ve spent so much time focusing on my project that I had lost sight of all of the great work Mozillians were putting out. MozSummit provided the...
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Firefox OS Media Query
Firefox OS is an awesome new HTML5-based mobile operating system. Some would says it’s epic, I just think it’s…super epic. The “native” languages are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — it’s enough to make...
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Remove Mobile Firefox Button Gradient
Read the full article at: Remove Mobile Firefox Button Gradient If you have an Android device, you’ve gotta check out Firefox for Android. It’s an outstanding mobile browser — it has been very well...
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Geeksphone Peak Firefox OS Unboxing
Read the full article at: Geeksphone Peak Firefox OS Unboxing Any time you get a new device it’s like instant Christmas. Whether it’s top of the line or bottom of the barrel, we’re always excited to...
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How to Test Firefox OS Apps on TV
One of my responsibilities in my new role in Partner Engineering at Mozilla is testing HTML5-powered apps and games on Panasonic televisions. The television in my office, a beautiful 60″ 4K Ultra HD...
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Get Element Dimensions After CSS Transform
I’ve been playing a lot with meta viewports recently due to seeing many HTML5 TV apps coded explicitly for 1280×720 which you’ll see on many HD televisions. We all know that it’s a much better...
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Spatial Navigation
Spatial navigation is the ability to navigate to focusable elements based on their position in a given space. Spatial navigation is a must when your site or app must respond to arrow keys, a perfect...
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